Apparatus for controlling the flow of lubricating oil in motors of motor-vehicles.



\ A 4BQ G. GARTIN. f APPARATUS EUR CONTROLLING THE FLDW 0F LUBRICATINGHML` IN MOzl'ORS 0F MOTOR VEHICLES.

, APPLICATION msn mw 23. ma 1,302,535. V

Patented May 6, 1919.

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. s, aAmiN. AEPQRATUS FR'LCONTOLLING THE FLOW 0F LUBRICATING OIL IN MOTORS 0F MOTOR VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23. ISIS.

1,302,535. Patented, May i6, 1919.

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G. GARTIN. AIIARA'IUS4 FOB CONTBOLLING THE FLOW 0F LUBHICATINGOIL IN MOTORS 0F-MOTOH VEHICLES.

` APPLlmqn msn mw 2a. lsua.` y 1,302,535. V Patented May 6,1919.

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which apertures or ports 22 are adapted to register with apertures or ports 23 for1ne d v upon the sliding pipe or casing 24; the inner end of the discharge pipe 19 and the sliding pipe or casing 24 constitutes a sectional valve as will be more fully understood from the following description.

A pendulum is pivotally mounted in the casing 1, and said pendulum comprises the body portion 25 having a weighted lower end 26; the body 25 is provided near its upper end with a bolt receiving aperture 27 and near said aperture 27 is an elongated alverture 28. A bifurcated lug structure 29 is formed on the inner face of the top of the casing 1 (see Figs. 1 and 5) andthe apertured end of the pendulum is positioned therein, and a bolt 30 extends through the apertured lug structure 29 and through the aperture 27 of the pendulum, holding the pendulum in the casing 1 in an operable poA sition. A bolt 31 extends through the inner end of the outer section or pipe 24 and bolt 31 ispositioned in the elongated aperture 28 of the pendulum; the elongation of the aperture 28 allows the pendulum to swing within casing 1 so that the outer section 24 of the valve may be adjusted longitudinally on the inner endof the discharge pipe 19. The inner end of the outer section or pipe 24 is slotted at 32, Fig. 4, to allow the pendulum to swing therein, and the inner end of said pipe or section y24 is closed by filler or plug 33, Fig. 4, so that oil is only allowed to pass from casing 1 into the discharge pipe 19 through lthe registering aper tures 22 and 23 of the valve device.

In Fig. 12 VI have shown the discharge or aoutlet pipe l19 lextending through the side of the ordinary ller tube '34of a motor vehicle, which tube 34 is" used for supplying lubricating oil to the motor; in this embodiment, insteadof having the portion 20a extending through the side of the motor casing, as clearly shown in Fig. 9, this portion 20- eXtends down the supplytube 34, permitting the oil or lubricant to pass from the container orA controller `casing 1 back into the motor as desired.A

It will be 'understood that the crank shaft of a motor-splashes the lubricant-"provided the oil is so .distributed throughout the length of the motor-casing so as yto permit the crank shafts in their traveling (in their lowest position) to 'come in contact-with lubricating oil. In many motors 'this splashingfor lubricatingof the crank shaft and its pistons is satisfactorily accomplished when fthemotor. vehicle-'isbn the level, butwhen the" vehicleis f ascending. or :descending a hill or grade thealubricatin lof-nthecrank and the pistons-is not satis` actmyflmt by eme ploying my improved lubricating apparatus the lubrication of the motor is automatically and satisfactorily accomplished whether the motor vehicle is on a level or Von -anwincline. Now, to better understand the operationM of my apparatus, I cause the oil thrown off the fly wheel 18 to enter the inletltubel at its funnel-shaped-end 17 at all timesynormally the pendulum is in the position shown in Fig. 3 when the nlachine or motor is on a level roadway, and the registering apertures or ports 22 and 23 are partly closed allowing of asmall quantity of lubricant to pass out of the container casin 1 and be discharged at the forward endo the motor casing, from whiclrforward end the lubricant gradually flows to the rear end of the motor casing, to the large reservoir 3'5 in which the lower end of the fly wheel 18 is positioned, Fig. 1.

Upon descending a hill orincline, the lubricant runs freely fnoni the large reservoir 35 to the forward end of the motor thereby furnishing sufficient lubricant to lubricate the cranl shaft and pistons; upon the machine being` inclined downwardly 4at its forward end, the pendulum will be pitched or swung to the dotted position 36, Fig. 3, closing the-apertures or ports so that no oil or lubricant is permitted to pass from the controller casing 1 into the .discharge pipe 19,' since the motor is securing enough oil from the reservoir 35 to satisfy the needs of thc motor, by reason of the inclination or inclined posit-ion of the machine. New, upon ascending a hill, the tendency is for all of the oil or lubricantl to run back into the reservoir 35 and lea-ve the crankshaft, and to overcome this, the pendulum will swing rearwardly tothe position indicated by dotted lines 37, Fig; '3, opening the ports' or apertures 22 and 23 totheir fullest, allowing of oil or lubricant togpassfreelyinto the pipe 19 and uniformly supply the entire motor casing with the lubricant, which portion "of the motor casing carrying the `crank shaft in some motors would be substantially dry, but by usingmy apparatus a uniform distribution-pf the lubricant is permitted at all times irrespecti'veas to whether themotor is lin a horizontallgposition or an inclined position.l Y

' The strainingr mesh 12 -revents any for eign substance cnming fiom thev vengine casingin the oil discharged from pipe-15 into casing 1', from being returned :to 'the engine casing through the pipe 19; "from time to time lug 10'- can be removed and the sediment or oreign substance removed from lcasing 1; only. clean and strained soilor lubricant is discharged through ports 22 and 23 into the discharge'pipe 19.

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